Re: disappearing files
--- "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote:
> Why!? That's really "crossing the river to fetch water" - or
> whatever the English expression is...
>
> Why not:
> # mount -oremount,rw /usr
> # apt-get install whatever
> # cp /home/fred/bin/somecommand /usr/local/bin
> # mount -oremount,ro /usr
>
I wasn't familiar with the remount option. Perhaps that would remedy
the "device is busy" when trying to umount it? Going to runlevel 1 was
my fix.
> > Specifically I added some programs to /usr/local/bin. After
> > going back into runlevel 2 I did some other work and finally
> > got around to looking for them to use. /usr/local/bin was empty.
>
> That doesn't make sense...
>
> Do you have /usr/local as a separate mount point?
Yes!
Heh, thanks.
Collin Monahan
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